Anyone implement Cortex A9 FIQ

Frank Li lznuaa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 03:49:50 EDT 2013


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> Whether this is feasible will really depend on what platform you're on - if
> there's a secure monitor then FIQs are out of the question anyway. Can you
> tell us more about the system?

Freescale MX6Q.

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> If your average interrupt latency is low then you should just be able to do
> this with normal IRQs (have you got threaded interrupt handlers?)

Not all drivers use threaded interrupt handler.

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> What is it about the situation that leads you to believe that you *need*
> FIQ?

FIQ can be executed even in spin_lock_saveirq.
We want do very small hardware set at related precision period (every 125us).

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> Jonny
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